starting with the corrupt text and moving backward. Most editions of the novel are shot through with more than 6,000 typographical errors. In 1977, Hans Walter ~abler, the general editor of a planned "Critical Edi- tion" of Joyce's works, turned to a computer in Munich for help.
Gabler fed the computer every known manuscript, author's change, and early edition of the novel. The computer compared these texts and provided a group of British and American Joyce scholars with a master list...